friendly note: do not go to the apple store at the glendale
galleria, at least for a month or two. between the ongoing
construction in the parking structure which makes it a bear to
get in and out of, and the super-small space the apple store is
in while they remodel their usual location, it is not a
particularly pleasant experience. luckily, they called my name
about ten minutes after my appointment was scheduled. the store
was jam-packed, especially for the middle of wednesday
afternoon.
the genius made a quick verdict of fried logic board for the mac
mini. when he looked up the price to repair it, it came up as
$612. which is just barely less than a new mac mini would be. now
it is up to my boss (or his boss, or his boss, or his boss, or
maybe someone else) to decide if replacing the computer is an
acceptable expense.
after giving me the bad news on the computer, the genius hooked
up the monitor that i thought had a …
I’m not a big fan of the polls, but I do think this one’s fairly significant: What is your primary programming language for developing MySQL applications?
Why? Because this means we know what connectors to give more love to. What kind of articles to write for the DevZone. While we might think Ruby is the next big thing since sliced bread, you folk might tell us that Delphi is probably larger than Ruby and we should be applying appropriate love there (I’m sure this statement is untrue, but for arguments sake, mmmkay?).
To vote, you actually have to click the Community link, to get to the DevZone, scroll down a bit, and get to the MySQL Quickpoll. Why can’t I link directly to the quickpoll? Why can’t you vote on the results page? That is left as an exercise to …
[Read more]MySQL data load and search are very important business requirements in any Windows or Internet web application development. In general, any application needs to show a result set of data and/or a single record to the end-users. In Windows applications it is very popular to show a result set of data by using the DataGridView, ListView or TreeView controls. A single record can be shown by the simple combination of the following controls: TextBox, ComboBox, ListBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, etc. MySQL data search is provided by using the required ADO.NET data objects and by refreshing the controls if necessary. These two processes, data load and search, should be fast and should be done with the proper code which depends on the controls in the Windows Form or Web Page. In this article I will show you how load and sort MySQL data using the DataGridView control. To search MySQL data the LIKE SQL operator will be used. Both programming implementations are …
[Read more]The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) has released its second major research study focusing on open source adoption trends, "Open Source in the Enterprise: New Software Disrupts the Technology Stack." Conducted for the IOUG by Unisphere Research and sponsored by MySQL AB, the study builds on a similar report issued in mid-2006 covering open source adoption trends in the enterprise stack. The findings point to ongoing interest in open source software solutions for operating systems, databases and middleware with most organizations reporting that they intend to increase their use of open source in general over the coming year. However, open source applications remain less widely adopted.
The full report is available from the IOUG here.
We held our one day MySQL User Conference in the UK this week to a good crowd of nearly 200 people. We've also got our events lined up Munich tomorrow and in Paris next week. Overall feedback has been very positive and we've maxed out registrations in Paris. However, there's still some space available in Munich.
Continuing in the tradition, which I hope has been as helpful to you as it has been to me, I’m opening the floor for suggestions on chapter 9 of the upcoming High Performance MySQL, Second Edition. Unlike the other chapters for which I’ve listed outlines, this one isn’t substantially written yet. It’s in detailed outline form at this point (a tactic that has worked very well for us so far – I’ll write about that someday).
I recently upgraded an install of PHP Free Chat to that latest version of 1.0 Final. However it was still lacking a feature to notify individual(s) that someone has joined the chat if they were not already in the chat application to begin with. I came across a posting explaining how to achieve this in PHP Free Chat at PHP Free Chat Forum. After a little reading and discussion I was able to implement the feature.
Here’s my modified version for the solution based on the forum posting. The pfcmail() function can be made to be way more versatile for any use, however for my use it was made to be simple and produce properly formated email messages.
Solution
- Create a new PHP file called pfcmail.php with the following lines of code.
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